Cloudflare is down – live updates on internet outage affecting ChatGPT, X (www.tomsguide.com)

Cloudflare experienced a global outage that produced widespread 500 errors and made its Dashboard and API unavailable, knocking many websites and services offline — notably X, OpenAI endpoints (ChatGPT, Sora), Anthropic’s Claude, and monitoring sites like Downdetector (which itself uses Cloudflare). The incident began late morning UTC and Cloudflare said it had identified the root cause and was deploying a fix; engineers toggled WARP (Cloudflare’s secure client) access in London as part of mitigation. Partial recovery was reported, but customers continued to see elevated error rates while the company completed remediation. This outage highlights a familiar but important risk for the AI/ML ecosystem: centralization of critical internet infrastructure creates cascading failures that can take model endpoints, APIs and developer dashboards offline simultaneously. Technically, the failure manifested as edge/control-plane errors (500s plus failing Dashboard/API), which broke both traffic delivery and status/monitoring tooling. For platforms running model inference or API-driven apps, the immediate takeaways are the value of multi-CDN/edge strategies, independent health checks and fallback routing, and designing client behavior to handle CDN/control-plane failures. Cloudflare’s identification and ongoing fixes are promising, but the episode is a reminder that resilience planning must account for infrastructure provider outages.